Super Awesome Mac

A curated collection of tools to get the most out of you Mac

For a non-curated list please refer to the more general : Awesome Mac

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Browser

Orion Privacy first WebKit based browser, blazing fast and non-battery hungry
Arc "the Chrome replacement I’ve been waiting for"

Battery

Aldente Help prolong the battery life of your Mac by limiting charge to 70% and alarming about when too hot

File Management

Commander One commander-like file manager

Email

Mimestream Native Gmail client for MacOS

Display

MonitorControl Easily control the brightness of external Displays

Memory/Files/App cleanup

Pearcleaner free mac app cleaner inspired by Freemacsoft's AppCleaner

Terminal / Terminal tools

Brew Package manager for Mac
Warp (new) or Fig.io
rg like ack but faster brew install rg
jq pretty print json for the terminal brew install jq
TLDR like man but with the most commonly used examples brew install tldr
mac-cli Control your mac from the terminal
fzf fuzzy finder for the terminal
exa ls but better, with colors
bat better than cat
fd a better alternative to find
z jump around most used folders! brew install z

Utils

Cheatsheet Show keyboard shortcuts on every app
Amphetamine Prevent Mac from sleeping
Notunes Avoid auto-launching Itunes
Rocket Slack shortcuts for emojis everywhere
Lulu Firewall for Mac Os

Monitoring

Stats Monitor all your hardware from the Menu bar

Audio/Video tools

Shottr for screenshots (amazing and free)
OBS for screen recording / streaming
Screen Studio Paid alternative to OBS for fancy looking screen recordings
BlackHole to record audio coming from the mac, see tutorial
EqMac for audio equalizing
Giphy Quick GIF screen record

Note taking

Bear Notes as Markdown
Simple Mind Mind maps
Nebo Favorite Ipad note taking app, great with stylus pencil (one time payment of 10 euros)

P2P

Transmission BT client

Burn ISO images

Etcher

Unlock hidden configuration

Onyx hidden features/configuration toggle
Tinkertool hidden features/configuration toggle

Desktop management apps

AltTab Cmd+Tab, supercharged brew install --cask alt-tab
Raycast Spotlight on steroids
Rectangle Window management done properly
Easy-Move-Resize Use hot key to move windows around, Linux style
Hidden Bar Hide less used apps on the menu bar
Bartender 4 Paid alternative to Hidden Bar (more features compared to Hidden Bar)
CopyClip for Clipboard management (but currently I prefer to use the embedded clipboard manager in Raycast)

Developer tools

Favorite VSCODE Extensions

Auto Import
Auto Rename Tag
Code spell Checker
Compare folders
Console Ninja
Diff
DotENV
env-cmd-file-syntax
ES7+React/Redux/React-Native snippets
ESLint
Git HIstory Diff
Import Cost
Local History
npm intellisense
Prettier
Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
TODO Highlight
Turbo Console Log
Universum Theme
VS Code Counter
vscode-icons